writer 0 2003-04-02T00:00:00Z The conventional understanding of US Cold War policy in Latin America portrays a defensive and reactive posture on the part of the US. The 'containment doctrine' is popularly understood to have been the US's core Cold War Grand Strategy and allegedly aimed at preventing and rolling back the expansion of the Soviet empire. In the final decade of the Cold War alone, massive amounts of US military... Doug 46444 false false false false 2003-04-02T00:00:00Z Stokes 3375 10667 0 1 US Empire in Latin America counterinsurgency-coups-and-coercion-history-and-the-us-empire-in-latin-america-by-doug-stokes Counterinsurgency, coups, and coercion: History and the US Empire in Latin America 2009-09-25T08:18:54Z 280